Ben Cherington

Ben Cherington
Cherington during the Red Sox 2013 World Series victory parade
Born	Benjamin P. Cherington (1974-07-14) July 14, 1974 (age 42) Meriden, New Hampshire, U.S.
Education	Amherst College University of Massachusetts Amherst Harvard Business School
Occupation	Vice-president of baseball operations for the Toronto Blue Jays
Spouse(s)	Wendi Nix (divorced) Tyler Tumminia (m. 2012)
Children	2

Benjamin P. Cherington (born July 14, 1974) is an American professional baseball executive. As of September 2016, he is the vice-president of baseball operations for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB).

From October 25, 2011, through August 18, 2015, he was the executive vice president and general manager of the Boston Red Sox. He succeeded Theo Epstein in that position, having worked in the team's baseball operations office since 1999, before Epstein's arrival.

Born in Meriden, New Hampshire, he is the grandson of former Dartmouth College professor Richard Eberhart, a poet who won the Pulitzer Prize. Cherington graduated from Lebanon High School, where he was a pitcher on the varsity baseball team. He matriculated at Amherst College, where he was a member of the Gamma chapter of Psi Upsilon fraternity, and has a master's degree in Sport Management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was originally hired by the Red Sox in 1999 by Dan Duquette, an Amherst College alumnus who was then the club's general manager, after Cherington spent the previous season as an advance scout for the Cleveland Indians.

Cherington served Boston as an area scout, baseball operations assistant, coordinator of international scouting, and assistant director (and then director) of player development from 1999–2005.